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Also Known As ʿĀʾishah bint Abī Bakr
Born 614 • Mecca
Died July 678 (aged 64) • Medina • Saudi Arabia
Notable Family Members spouse Muhammad • father Abū Bakr
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
Khadījah
wife of Muhammad
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
ʿAbd al-Qādir Badāʾūnī
Indo-Persian historian
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar